The Brookhaven leader., 1887-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Spanish Government has declined to
accept the resignation of the Governor
General Of Cuba.
DIR. MoRGENsTEIS the eminent Hebrew
scholar, drowned himself recently in the
Danube. Since he implicated Dr. Stoecker
IN the antiSemtic persecution at Berlin he
had been unable 10 gain employment and
was reduced TO penury.
TIE Chicago municipal election went de
cidedly against the United Labor party. the
Republican ticket being elected by 10000
majority.
LATER returns from Michigan indicated
the defeat Of the Prob bitIOn amendment by
$500
The Kansas City. Mo-, election Of the 5:h
went Republican. Kumpf, Republican, for
mayor, received 9 49, Worthen, Democrat,
3,l24; Welsh, Labor, kg!5.
NEELY, Democrat-Labpr, carried Leqven-
worth, Kan, against Garrigucs, Repub-
licau-Prohiblion, on the 5th. The election
was protested by the friends of the latter
THE complete count for mayor of Cincln-
natl showed; Smith, Republican, 1853;
Matson, Democrat, 1l.95l; Stevenson La
Dor, Il, 7,36T; Smiths plurality, SO.
HoN. ID. WYATT AIKEN, late Representa-
tive in Congress from he Third South Caro-
lima district, died at his home in Cokcs-
bury, S c., on tho 9th, aged tifty-nine. He
had been i'll for long time.
Hon. HOWARD Cross, Judge OF the Fed
eral Court for the district OF Arkansas from
1882 TO 1898 and a member of the Twenty
sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eIghth
Congresses from Arkansas, died at Little
Rock on the 9th, aged eighty nine years.
As NEAR as could be asCertaned on the
9th the Rhode Island House stands 81 Re
publicans and 20 Democrats. and the Sen
ate IS Republicans and 10 Democrats, with
four cities or towns to be heard from.
MILWAUKEE on the 9th gave a majority
for the Labor candidates, but the towns
poiled a Fusion vote that overtopped the
Labor vote in the city and elected the
Fusion judicial candidates by majority of
nearly 1900
Ir was reported that Thoebe, the Labor
candidate, had failed to make case against
the election of Speaker Carlisle in Ken
lucky and had abandoned the contest.
SENIOR CORRAL, the Bolivian Minister to
the United States, has been recalled at his
own request.
Mr.. THoEBE, of Covington, Ky, Speaker
CGrlisle's opponent in the Congressional
contest, declares that he has not abandoned
the fight.
THE President, in letter to the Ameri-
can Fisheries Union, dated April :, stated
that he was impressed with the magnitude
of the interests involved by the Retalia-
tory law, and while he would enforce the act
to maintain American dignity, if occasion
should call for it, he hoped that no citizen
would SO act as to place the country in a
false position.
a TELEGRAM from Fort Gibson, ]. T., of
the Sth. reported Mr. Blaine as suffering
from bronchial catarrh. No grave symp-
toms were apparent,
THE Interstate Commerce Commission has
appointed f. l.. Pugh, of Alat-,ma, to a
clerkship. He is a son of Senator Pugh.
This is he first appointment made by the
commission.
The President has recognized ". }. H
Taylor as British Vice Consul at Key West
Fla: Robert NJ. Kuerze, Consul of the
Swiss Confederation, at Cincinnati, for the
States of Ohio and Indiana; SIegfried
Fischer, Consul of the Swiss Confederation
at Louisville, KY, and Charles J. Karrar,
Vice Consul Of the Swiss Confederation at
Cincinnati
THE Pope has forwarded to France pro
posals for the re-establIshlncnt of diplomat
lc relations